Taliban assail Nobel decision

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PESHAWAR: Members of the media division of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan’s offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar criticised the awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousufzai, calling her an “agent of kuffar (disbelievers)”.

In English messages posted on Friday on the Twitter accounts of Jamat-ul-Ahrar spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan and the chief of its Ihya-e-Khilafat media division, Saleh Qassam, and media member Ibrahim Khorasani, commented on Malala and the award, together stating that she did not represent Islam.

Also read: TTP commander wishes Malala attack never happened

Ehsanullah threatened that fighters would continue to strike people who took what to them was anti-Islamic positions.

Published in Dawn, October 11th , 2014

Pakistan

Ismail Khan is Dawn’s Editor (North), based in Peshawar. With 35 years of reporting experience, he covers politics and security issues in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Afghanistan. He was part of the NYT reporting team that received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the region.

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Sunil

Oct 11, 2014 06:32am

Taliban will assail, because they think they are doing the noble things.

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Far sight

Oct 11, 2014 06:41am

Did he reveal the location?

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Oct 11, 2014 07:10am

May you and your mass-murdering ilk soon get confined to the dustbin of history. Taking on a school girl. What an act of 'bravery' that is. You do not represent Islam!

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Syed

Oct 11, 2014 07:19am

Shame on you TTP.

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shah

Oct 11, 2014 07:22am

PTI would whole heartedly agree with the objections of these Taliban savages.

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Sammy

Oct 11, 2014 07:28am

Your right the prize should have gone to you for the good work your doing in the name of Islam.

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Frank

Oct 11, 2014 07:33am

They are as bad as gangsta rappers from the Ghetto - same disease of young men worshiping weapons and violence.

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Ayaz

Oct 11, 2014 08:01am

Followers of terror

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TilibofHate?

Oct 11, 2014 08:13am

these are men who hide in the corners, send child bomber, and shoot those who aspire for knowledge...cowardly men do not represent Islam. They are worse then rats.

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Biju

Oct 11, 2014 08:20am

Congrats Malala for the Nobel Peace prize....you shot the Taliban right where it hurts them most...

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NHM

Oct 11, 2014 08:36am

Couldn't Dawn find a better news item than this or at least, interviewed terrorists with a little more personality than these two nincompoops

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MHZ

Oct 11, 2014 08:41am

@Far sight lol real fun

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Shameonu

Oct 11, 2014 08:41am

Let this brave pair of Taliban reveal their real names, and not hide behind fake rhyming ones. And the vast majority of their even braver fighters should not hide their faces behind scarves and hi jabs normally worn by women!

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Naeem Qureshi

Oct 11, 2014 08:54am

TTP is such losers a force of darkness

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Srinath

Oct 11, 2014 09:03am

Well They seem to believe that they are the hot favorites for Nobel peace for all the Nobel works they have been doing and of course the ultimate peace that is assured.

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reality bites

Oct 11, 2014 09:58am

Sorry TTP. Malala has won again. She is only seventeen and kicking your you know what.

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Jamal syed

Oct 11, 2014 10:01am

In your face animals!!

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Z khan

Oct 11, 2014 10:09am

And they represent Islam? Killers, looters, robbers, kidnappers and rapists.

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vlra

Oct 11, 2014 10:25am

she doesn't represent Islam, she represents humanity.

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vlra

Oct 11, 2014 10:26am

the guy on the right is more worried about his lost goat.

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khan ismaeel

Oct 11, 2014 10:37am

jealoused??

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Bluepigeon

Oct 11, 2014 10:42am

You people are Disgust to Religion.

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jabran

Oct 11, 2014 10:52am

Long live the forces of progess, liberty and creativity. Down with imitators, rigid minds, frozen ideas. Long Live Malaala

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Ahmad

Oct 11, 2014 11:36am

Did the Taliban take up the responsibility to decide who represents Islam? By whose authority I might ask? Let us ask the Taliban this: What is your contribution to the welfare and progress of mankind? Are you setting up hospitals or centres of research or learning? Has anyone amongst you written or published a book or even an article setting out an original idea, a vision or a solution to the problems that face the world? Instead, you have bombed schools and murdered health care workers and today we are one of three countries on the planet where Polio thrives. A plague on you and on your beards.

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vimalesh

Oct 11, 2014 11:42am

@Z khan taliban is going to represent islam but doesn't even know the meaning of this holy word and wants to put it's own dirty and anti-human rules for the people by giving a title ISLAM.

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man mohan singh

Oct 11, 2014 12:05pm

Followers of terror

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Wandering Around

Oct 11, 2014 12:06pm

These people are hallucinating if they think that they are the custodians of Islam around the globe.

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M J Syed

Oct 11, 2014 12:12pm

A theological misunderstanding is one of the core problems. These guys assume that they have responsibility to save our future thereafter. They just want to ensure that we eventually go to heaven. Just that they are sending many of us too quickly! I feel Muslim scholars should address this issue in an international well publicized debate.

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Comedy nights with Pakistan

Oct 11, 2014 12:12pm

This is real entertainment. Way to go Pakistan, a true reality show. ;)

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Shipra

Oct 11, 2014 12:56pm

Do not worry. ISIS will give you terror Nobel award.

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Vishnu

Oct 11, 2014 01:48pm

Malala is the Harry Potter for the taliban Voldermort. They chose her to their destruction through education.

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Sajjad Khan

Oct 11, 2014 02:24pm

What else would you expect from illiterates?

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Sanjeev Kumar Yadav

Oct 11, 2014 03:27pm

They think they are noble.

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Hooribaba

Oct 11, 2014 03:40pm

For the Taliban to appreciate the Peace Prize.. they first have to understand what the word PEACE means

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Francis of Assissi

Oct 12, 2014 04:24am

Islam enjoins its followers to IQRA....Seek knowledge even if you have to go to China..... Here all these illiterate factions Al Qaeda, TTP , ISIS and their dirty gangs are working in the opposite direction... With these degenerate, so called "Muslims" ... overrunning established truths ... many steps back to the dark ages. My the Almighty creator of this universe destroy them all including like minded sick persons all over the world ... who are feeling threatened by an educated little Pakistani girl from remote Swat.....

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Farrukh

Oct 12, 2014 07:36am

Dear Pakistanis, you are either with Malala or Taliban. There is no third option. Make your choice.

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khurram

Oct 12, 2014 08:44am

@vlra ........ISLAM PREACHES HUMANITY !.......SHE REPRESENTS IT

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Tariq

Oct 12, 2014 08:10pm

Bunch of losers I hope military strikes completely eradicate these Vermons of society.

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